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<p>To help ensure that sufficient capacity was in place to help deal with the initial
impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, every hospital in England suspended non-urgent elective
operations to help free up additional capacity. The suspension did not apply to clinically
urgent care, such as emergency admissions and cancer treatment.</p><p>With evidence
now suggesting that we have reached the peak of this wave of COVID-19, and with the
National Health Service well-placed to provide world-leading care for those who do
still have the virus, we have started to reset suspended services. The approach to
this will be flexed at local level according to capacity and demand in different parts
of the country, and will be gradual, over the coming weeks.</p>
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